Re: XSLT-CONFORMANCE Mailing List

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@eng.sun.com>]

Tommie, I believe you've misread Jon's message. I don't think the issue
is whether the list should be open to access by Oasis members, but
rather whether it should also be open to access (read only) by
non-Oasis members. I don't believe anybody disputes your point for
the need to have those lists open within Oasis.

Eduardo

"B. Tommie Usdin" wrote:
> 
> Jon asked:
> 
> >The question here is whether the mailing list at this stage should
> >be public (i.e., visible beyond the rather large circle of OASIS
> >members and members/employees of OASIS member organizations).  I
> >think now that the answer should be No, just as it is (implicitly)
> >in Robert's -- a society that has not yet met for the first time
> >doesn't need to keep minutes.  I think that people who are just
> >kicking things around in advance of conducting business don't need
> >to make their deliberations public (remembering again that they
> >are still visible within OASIS).
> >
> >Other opinions?
> 
> It seems to me that at the point that they are asking for an OASIS resource
> (the  mailing list) they should be open enough to allow any OASIS member
> see what they are doing.  It seems obvious that in most cases there will
> have been private communications before that (otherwise how would a group
> have formed to ask for a list) and that there may be private off-list
> conversations after, but that the list should be open.
> 
> An option is to put OASIS into the business of providing private mailing
> list services to any group of members who ask, as a benefit of membership
> and unrelated to the committee process.  I find it unlikely that OASIS has
> any interest in doing this (and don't like the smell of it myself), so I
> think it reasonable that committee-related lists, even if pre-official
> existance of the committee, be open.
> 
> -- Tommie
> 
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